Do You Plan to Attend ESS West 2008 in San Jose this month?

The Enterprise Search Summit - West starts Monday September 22 with  pre-conference workshops, and the show kicks off Tuesday the 23rd. We'll be exhibiting once again- please stop by and say hello at Booth 229! 

Early bird pricing ends  Sept 3!

  You can register here and get a special rate through New Idea Engineering. Use promotion code VIPIDEA.

Don't miss our sessions.

• Tuesday Sept 23 2008 at 11:45 - 12:15 pm
  A101:  The Nuts and Bolts of Selecting a Search Engine
  Companies often spend huge sums of money and months of work effort to replace an existing enterprise search engine only to find they still are not happy with the results. With a little planning you can avoid this disaster. Kehoe will outline a phased approach for selecting an enterprise search engine, verifying quality of results against your existing solution, and transitioning to your new infrastructure. This talk takes a hard look at the fix vs. buy decision by focusing on methodology as well as on technology.
• Wednesday Sept 24 2008 at 3:00 - 3:45pm 
  B206: Search and the Virtual Machine
  Enterprise search is incredibly demanding on hardware resources. Virtualized solutions allow server consolidation and higher server utilization. Virtualization also allows the IT staff to better allocate resources—processors and memory—to optimize performance, yet there are trade-offs to be considered with any approach. This session will examine virtualized solutions in the context of real-world implementations to help attendees understand how this approach can impact operation and performance.